Johnny Carson Quotes
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When life knocks you down, keep getting up.
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It's hard to generalize, because they're all different. When I started, I decided to take as much advantage as I could of the freedom offered by the SF field.
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I was also the romantic lead in The Boston Strangler - I was the only one that lived to tell the story - so I called myself the romantic lead.
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In my flat in Chicago, I've got this big room with an office in the corner and a balcony so I can watch people go by.
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My husband and I don't have sons, so we never had to ask ourselves how we'd have felt about them playing football.
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Female characters in literature are full. They're messy: they've got runny noses and burp and belch. Unfortunately, in film, female characters don't often have that kind of richness.
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We can reorient our products and business strategy because we are an agile organisation.
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My first taste memory is pickle. Even as a kid, I was really weird. I liked chillis. I used to climb up the shelves in my grandmother's pantry. The pickle jar was kept right at the top. One time, I dropped the jar and it broke. I was totally busted.
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I've worked since I was a five-year-old to be a performer.
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Women aren't as mere as they used to be.
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I'm a big fan of a great glass of red wine and a delicious bowl of pasta made from scratch.
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I was at a slight disadvantage in that I had never played in bands or done any performances before, and that's just as important as writing, recording, and putting records out. It's been a lot of hard work, balanced with a lot of pinch-myself moments of touring in crazy parts of the world.
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Women in America will have to find an answer for the pressures of work and family, but if you really care about women's issues you have to think about women in the world, especially Africa, Asia and the Middle East.
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You have to take strength from the people that love you and the people that love Barbara and the huge number of expressions of sympathy and compassion and support. That has been extremely moving.
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I thought I was an old soul, and that I knew life, but then starting the real life, I figured I am completely new.
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Yes, I always played the bad woman. I actually did.
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I'm a huge 'Futurama' fan, so that's my closest sci-fi tendency.
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People tell me all the time I should stop and smell the roses, but I can't. I'm always thinking of what I can do to make what I have better and do more.
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It's important to have an examined life - but it's a fine line between having an examined life and being hypercritical of oneself. There has to be balance in there somewhere.
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I paint what I think, not what I see.
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There's so many kids in the world who are told, 'You can't do this, you can't do that.' Those are all put-downs. I'm all about pick-ups. You have to pick people up and pay it forward.
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He sat down next door in the seat she had left and watched the grim suburbs of Philadelphia showing their sores, like beggars, to the rich train.
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You can't tell what's going to fulfill you in different stages in your life.
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Never use a big word when a little filthy one will do.
